There's just no great rock albums anymore. There's a lot of rock music out there, but it's very bland and disposable.

Art gives people a reason to be alive.

Finding someone who's willing to drown with you creates a situation where you no longer want to drown.

It's not like I turn off Marilyn Manson and I'm an everyday guy who goes and has another job and doesn't think about any of this stuff. Marilyn Manson is the most real thing that can come from me.

I don't want to have a gravestone. I want to have all my friends burn me and then snort the ashes. I think that's the only way to go out.

I am drawn to women who are independent and creative, which is problematic because it's a struggle, a competition of careers. There's jealousy.

I don't say things to be offensive; I say things because they're funny to me. It amuses me.